Wikipedia:WikipediaWeekly/Episode4
Wikipedia Weekly Episode 4 - Wikipedia Offline Editions
The Panel
Currently, It's planned that we make a conference on Skype, which works up to ten folks, but for practical purposes four is about ideal.
Those signing up should be experienced with previous episodes, and be regular listeners of other podcasts.
- Main hosts
- Guest hosts
- Daveydweeb -- I'll hold back on this, to let someone else have a turn if they want one. Add me if there's not enough interest. :)
- --1ne
- Looks like I'll have to be part of Ep 4, then. Again, pending timezones. – Chacor 09:49, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
- Away hosts
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TawkerTawker will be away for episodes 4 and 5 (if we do it early enough... say thursday night I'm in... otherwise... nada) -- Tawker 18:46, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
Discussion
What should our main focus be for the week?
Danny's contest is close to being done. JoeSmack Talk(p-review!) 18:01, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Agenda
This is the basic layout of how the episode is planned to move along.
Time of Recording
[to be announced]
Introduce the panel
That'd be the speakers listed above. Each person says what they'd like to about themselves, and we move on.
See the script
News
- Hutter Prize via Slashdot [1] and prize site [2]
- "The Hutter Prize for Lossless Compression of Human Knowledge, an ongoing challenge to compress a 100-MB excerpt of the Wikipedia, has been awarded for the first time. Alexander Ratushnyak managed to improve the compression factor to 5.86 and will receive a 3,416-Euro award. Being able to compress knowledge well is believed to be related to acting intelligently."
- AOL's Jason Calacanis - Wikipedia leaves $100M on the table (or "PLEASE Jimbo, reconsider--media philanthropy could change the world!").
- Some media outlets have confused this $100 million editorial with the previous $100 million dollar "dream a little" post by Jimbo last week. They are not related whatsoever.
- I was IM'ing w/ Jimmy re this and he says he doesn't recall hearing this "offer" from Calacanis, and that he's making the whole thing up.... nice interesting debate -- Tawker 18:48, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
- Some media outlets have confused this $100 million editorial with the previous $100 million dollar "dream a little" post by Jimbo last week. They are not related whatsoever.
- Citizendium launches, with a slight hiccup, but it's live.
- Larry Sanger: "Sorry about the launch that wasn't quite. Just as we were launching, I was making requests of the tech team to optimize the wiki, and one of the requests resulted in a database table being blanked! Ouch!"
- Might be nice to do a quick voice interview with Larry on the day after launch.
- German Wikipedia has a small crisis on their hands when their fifth German writing contest results in a controversial winner. [3]
- Topic number one was Methodical culturalism, an article about contemporary philosophical theory which won the fifth German Wikipedia writing contest. While members of WikiProject philosophy celebrated the jury decision and proposed it as a candidate for featured articles, a storm of protests broke out. Many Wikipedians complained the article was obscure, incomprehensible and irrelevant. The debate became even more emotional when one of the jury members of the contest deserted his colleagues and joined the protesters. He even went so far as to propose the article for deletion on AfD leading to an edit-war and the protection of the article - without the deletion notice. The featured article candidature was cancelled prematurely when the vote count reached 18:30 and the article was moved into the review section. In sum: Wikipedia theater at its best - or worst?
From the Signpost
Feedback
If anybody provides some particularly interesting feedback, or one of us has anything cool to say, we'd say it here. Who knows? It might be interesting, if we ever have anything to say. :)
The World According to Wikipedia
This would be a quick, light-hearted discussion of any particularly funny page-rankings we see on The Top 100 pages at Wikipedia. There's at least two or three minutes' worth of humour in that. :)